The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-12-03

avowable service rendered to the do- nors. Who at Paris does not know the agreeable and plausible marquis who, since the departure of Princess Lise Troubetskoi, has been the ''cor- respondent" in the French metropolis of the Imperial Chancellerie. Married to charming woman whose first hus- band held high rank in the Russian civil service, he occupies a most de- lightful house in one of the streets leading off Champs Elyses. His es- tablishment is rich and luxurious, not withstanding the fact that neither he nor his wife have any private fortune of their own, and his salons are thronged with French functionaries of every rank and importance. Few are aware of his origin or to what na- tionality he in reality belongs. That is secret which he has successfully concealed hitherto from the vulgar public under the disguise of an Italian title purchased some years ago at Rome. It is asserted that his reports are admirable narratives of the pass ing events of Europe, with mature and profound calculations upon their bearings on one another. Every French statesman or official of any l importance is dissected for the ben eft of the Imperial Chancellerie with an exactitude which would be rather startling to the subjects of his notes. It may be of interest to add that his stepson occupies a post in the czar's household, but is not on speaking terms with his parents.
 The agents of the Imperial Chan cellerie at Brussels in the person of Mime. de NJ, at Dresden in that of the Countess B., in Switzerland in the person of Prince A. T., and at Rome in that of the Marquise di F., are less we'll known to the public at large than Mime. de Novikotf or the polyglot marquis at Paris. Even little Egypt is not disdained by the czar's govern ment, and through the Countess J. (nee Princess CD, the Russian wife of an Italian adventurer, and sole lady in- waiting of the vice queen, the lm- perial Chancellerie, obtains an early report of every state secret which the British government consider it neces- sary to communicate to the khedive.
 For many years Mime. Blavatsky the high priestess of theosophy, acted as secret agent of the Russian govern ment ill India, and under the guise o esotoric Buddhism carried on an ex- tensive Russian propaganda among the native rajahs and feudatory princes Her principal correspondents in Rus. sia were NJ. Zinovietl, the chief of the Asiatic department of the foreigI office, and Prince Dondaroff Korsa. koh, governor general of the Cauca. sus. Lord Duilerin, however, sooi had his attention drawn toward hel proceedings, and measures were spe. cially adopted to check her politica activity.
 As for Berlin and this city, so many of the Austrian and German govern ment officials of every rank have mar. ried Russian wives that the imperia chancellerie at St. Petersburg is al. ways furnished with intelligence from both countries.
 The section of the imperial chancel- lerie charged with the surveillance oi the czar's subjects abroad is much vaster organization and conducted or far more secret lines. In order to re. aliZe it's extent it is sufficient to point out that in the year 1884 no less than 890,3l8 Russians crossed the western frontier of the empire for the purpose of paying a more or less prolonged visit to foreign countries. In the fol- lowing year the numbers had increased to 920,563. Now, it is no exaggera- tion to assert that every one of these travellers was subject to almost the same amount of surveillance abroad as at home; that every movement was noted, every remark reported. It may be taken for granted that at least half of the nine hundred thousand and odd Russians who crossed the frontier were engaged in watching and spy ing the other half. Every true and faith ful su bject of the czar is bound to re- port to the imperial chancellerie any thing that may seem to him to be amiss in the conduct and conversation of his fellow travellers or companions, no mattr how trivial it may be, very much the same as is the case ill com- munities of Jesuit novitiates. One result of all this is that it is very un- usual to hear a Russian of social or official standing talk badly about any of his countrymen. It is next ,o inn possible to obtain from any of the czar's embassies or legations a direct reply as to the authenticity of the claims of Russians of notoriously shady repute and doubtful character. The diplomats are careful men, and never know but what the individual in question may be some important emissary of the imperial chancellerie